• Director, Educational Skills Initiative, Education
• Vice Chancellor for Students, Administration

• Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at University of Chicago
• B.A. in Psychology at University of Michigan

Koff previously served as senior vice president of the Danforth Foundation, a post he held for 11 years. There Koff was responsible for overseeing grant initiatives in support of efforts to commercialize St. Louis-based research in the life and plant sciences, community redevelopment in the 500-acre Jeff/Vander/Lou neighborhood in north St. Louis, the award-winning Policymakers Program and the nationally recognized Forum for the American School Super-intendent.

Prior to working at the foundation, Koff served as professor of education and psychology and dean of the school of education at State University of New York at Albany.

Koff began his career as a postdoctoral fellow at Oxford University and then as a faculty member at Stanford University. There he participated in the Study of Undergraduate Education at Stanford, assisted in establishing the Stanford Freshman Seminar Program, and assisted in the design of surveys to assess the effectiveness of faculty instruction.

He has authored or co-authored four books and more than 80 papers, book chapters and monographs. His most recent book was The Superindendent's Fieldbook: A Guide for Leaders of Learning (2004), which says that by putting all of its eggs in the basket of school standards and tests, the "No Child Left Behind" act overlooks other critical components of school administration. These other components include leadership, governance, developing principals and teachers, and the challenges of race and class, out-of-school support for learning, and community engagement